Archive for September, 2006

the yearning for better education

September 26, 2006

So, I am in the fourth year and i think its about time that I start deciding what I want to do with/in life ( keeping aside the fact that its every human’s soal aim to ensure that his species propagates ).

My gre got over on 19th of this month ; sadly the scores suck. iv’s hypothesis relates to some kinda conspiracy by the ets people to not give more than 600 to any one in the verbal section on that day. Ever since then, I’ve been interrogated with more or less the same questions “Is – enough ? Will you be writing again ? “. I’ve heard getting into a univ in the u.s of a is actually not difficult. Its kinda like the local eng. colleges here where thr are around 60k odd seats available. However, its the good colleges which one is after (of course).

A premonition in this regard — Its quite dangerous when your parents actually see the campus of colleges like MIT, Stanford cus this just raises their expectations. I don’t have an actual number for the number of people from iiit who have actually got a place there( from what i’ve heard ; i don’t think its high).

Continuing from where I left, the gre exam officially sucks. With several arbit words likeĀ  “slight” meaning “to show disrespect” i think you can understand my plight. For those giving the gre , do not trust the visu wordlist book ; you’ve got to finish barron’s + some confidence would help. More advice if/when I give a b8r gre.

ps1: the audio streaming player is finally out, last chked thr were two users using it;

ps2: mid-sems from tomorrow, gotta read LP